George Barr McCutcheon:

A Preliminary Inventory of His Papers at the Harry Ransom
Humanities Research Center

Creator:

McCutcheon, George Barr,
1866-1928

Title:

George Barr McCutcheon
Papers

Dates:

ca. 1887-1957

Extent:

2 boxes, 1
oversize box (.84 of linear feet)

Abstract:

The George Barr
McCutcheon collection contains career-related papers and works by McCutcheon
and personal papers collected by other family members, primarily his sister
Jessie McCutcheon Raleigh Nelson. There are drafts of McCutcheon's short works
including ,
"My First Party,"
"Waddleton Mail," and
"Pour La Patrie," as well as poetry,
and one novel,
Romeo in Moon Village.

The University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom
Humanities Research Center

The George Barr McCutcheon collection contains career-related papers
and works by McCutcheon and personal papers collected by other family members,
primarily his sister Jessie McCutcheon Raleigh Nelson. The collection is
divided into three series: Series I. George McCutcheon Papers, 1887-1928;
Series II. McCutcheon Family Papers, 1899-1957; and Series III. Works by
Others, 1916-1917, nd.

Series I is comprised of correspondence and drafts of McCutcheon's
works. Included in the correspondence are two letters from Kate Douglas Wiggin
and a letter from McCutcheon to his mother, sent upon the publication of his
first novel,
Graustark (1901). Present in the
collection is a draft of a novel,
Romeo in Moon Village (1925), which
probably came from the Ransom Center's James F. Drake collection. There are
also drafts of some of McCutcheon's poetry and short works. Among the short
works are handwritten drafts of
"My First Party," published in 1887;
"Waddleton Mail"; interviews for the
New York Times and
New York Sun, both published in 1915; and
"Pour La Patrie," a short story that
was published in an anthology entitled
For France (1916), and dedicated to the
French Relief of 1916.

Series II is made up of papers from various members of the McCutcheon
family, including a eulogy for Ben McCutcheon, who died in 1934, and a review
of John McCutcheon Raleigh's book
Behind the Nazi Front (1940). There are
also several unidentified family photographs from the 1940s. The bulk of the
papers are those of McCutcheon's sister, Jessie McCutcheon Nelson. Included
among her correspondence are letters from Carrie Jacobs-Bond, George Ade,
Louella Parsons, and Herschel Williams.

Also included in the McCutcheon papers are two draft third-party works
by Julian Street and Louise Closser Hale, and a book inventory that may be of
McCutcheon's personal library.